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Daily Cybersecurity Update, March 08, 2024

Five notable happenings today in the cyber world:

The NCSC-Switzerland said that the Play ransomware attack at Xplain impacted 65,000 important documents of the Federal Administration. The documents were from various administrative units, including the Federal Department of Justice and Police, the Federal Office of Justice, and the Federal Office of Police.

TP-Link RCE and SonicWall Zero-Click Flaws Enable Complete Device Compromise

TP-Link has shared a security warning about a serious problem with its TL-WR940N V6 wireless router. This problem, known as...
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TP-Link RCE and SonicWall Zero-Click Flaws Enable Complete Device Compromise

ExfilSquad releases info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff

A cyberattack on the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has put the contact information of over 100,000 police officers...
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CISA alerts to cyberattacks affecting U.S. water utilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns of a big rise in attacks on internet-connected programmable logic controllers...
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“CyberStrike” AI-Driven Security Platform for Automated Testing

A new open-source project named CyberStrike aims to be the first AI tool made for offensive security. It can turn...
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“CyberStrike” AI-Driven Security Platform for Automated Testing

AIDCQ Propose to invest $2 billion in AI data center in Bangladesh

Many countries are now showing interest to invest in the data center industry in Banglades especially in AI data centers....
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AIDCQ Propose to invest $2 billion in AI data center in Bangladesh

NVIDIA BlueField Flaw Enables Code Execution Attacks

NVIDIA has revealed a big flaw with its BlueField DPUs and ConnectX networking systems. This issue could let attackers run...
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Massive customer data from India’s Bank of Baroda surfaced online

India's leading state-owned lender Bank of Baroda acknowledged Monday a security incident after reports that approximately 1 terabyte of customer...
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Massive customer data from India’s Bank of Baroda surfaced online

Active Exploits Hit Fortinet, Arista: AI Discovered Linux Kernel Zero-Day

CISA has put the Fortinet FortiOS vulnerability CVE-2025-68686 in its list of known exploited flaws after ongoing attacks. The flaw...
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Active Exploits Hit Fortinet, Arista: AI Discovered Linux Kernel Zero-Day

Sam Altman Claims AI “singularity” has arrived, Where Systems Improve by Themselves

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman says that AI has reached a big milestone. The technology can now make itself better, leading...
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Sam Altman Claims AI “singularity” has arrived, Where Systems Improve by Themselves

Shinyhunters claimed and set deadline to publish E&Y data

ShinyHunters has publicly claimed responsibility for the Ernst & Young (EY) data breach. The group posted a message on their...
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Shinyhunters claimed and set deadline to publish E&Y data

The NSA and CISA issued five cybersecurity bulletins about securing data in the cloud. The recommendations cover implementing IAM solutions, encryption, and key management.

A report by FS-ISAC and Akamai showed that DDoS attacks on the financial sector increased by 154% in 2023 compared to 2022, mainly due to strong botnets and cyber hacktivist groups.

Tycoon and Storm-1575 threat actors carried out spear-phishing attacks on U.S. school districts in November 2023. They used Microsoft 365 credentials to bypass MFA protections.
The Rhysida ransomware group sold data stolen from Lurie Children’s Hospital for 60 bitcoins (approximately $3.4 million) on the dark web. The hospital is working on restoring the affected systems.

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